Pubdate: Wed, 28 May 2003
Source: Calgary Sun, The (CN AB)
Copyright: 2003 The Calgary Sun
Contact:  http://www.fyicalgary.com/calsun.shtml
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/67
Author: Frank G. Sterle, Jr.
Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk

LEGITIMIZING MARIJUANA

By promoting its decriminalization or outright legalization, our government 
is basically legitimizing marijuana's consumption and implying it's 
basically harmless. As a former pot-consumer I, along with most of my 
former pot-consumption peers, can attest to the permanent damage that 
marijuana can cause to the consumer's body and mind. If pro-pot people 
propose legalizing marijuana for practical reasons -- less pressure on 
already-overburdened law-enforcement and justice systems -- that's a clear 
and perhaps practical motive, but there's simply way too much 
media-propagated BS telling our impressionable youth that pot is harmless.

Frank G. Sterle, Jr.

(The pot affected your logic, too.) 
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